Re: New scoping rule for "repeat" and "continue" patch

[Rici Lake <lua@...>]

On 28-Sep-05, at 10:31 PM, Glenn Maynard wrote:

> This practice is very clear to me, and seems just as self-documenting 
> as
> an equivalent goto; I consider this construct obvious enough to not 
> need
> a comment.

I guess it depends on how many lines separate the 'do {' from the '} 
while(0)'. The examples I was thinking of had several pages of 
intervening code.

> The main problem I have with goto is that it's poorly scoped:

Sure. It can also wreak havoc with block structure. I'm by no means a 
fan. I don't like functions which stretch over eighteen screens, 
either, but, hey, what can you do? We'd probably disagree about 
appropriate use of whitespace, as well :)

> By the way, not wrapping the last word or two of lines would make your
> mails somewhat more, er, self-documenting.  :)

Sorry. Apparently whoever wrote mail.app didn't think it was worth 
putting in a linewrapping preference. I'll try to stop my habit of 
wrapping manually -- not much I can do about quoted text, though. I 
checked it on gmane, and I see what you mean.